Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
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Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#2I’ve noticed the Office and OneDrive web apps now make it subtly harder to download your files. All part of their lockin strategy I suppose.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#3I am speculating that only a fraction of users explicitly shut down a program that appears beasides the clock. Is it truly worth irritating that segment of users? I am one of those who occasionally turns off OneDrive. However, the idea of starting to look for alternatives has only just struck me. I'm really tired of waves of popups everywhere.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#4One monopoly continues to single-handedly shit on personal computing for the whole species.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#5Same as restarting a server. It is something that should be running all the time so turning it off points to something not working, and asking for a valid reason makes sense.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#6> Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.
Clearly they've never used Windows Server.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#7Strange that data corruption [1] is not offered as one of the options :)
[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#8I am speculating that only a fraction of users explicitly shut down a program that appears beasides the clock. Is it truly worth irritating that segment of users? I am one of those who occasionally turns off OneDrive. However, the idea of starting to look for alternatives has only just struck me. I'm really tired of waves of popups everywhere.
Every 3 months MS "updates" windows by prompting me to enable edge, buy/try office, enable one drive, etc. And every button for no is in a different location.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#9The newer versions of Windows seem to care less and less about what the user prefers.
This is emblematic in the message boxes that offer a choice between Yes and Not Now/Maybe Later. It takes real effort to make Windows accept a No.
Re: Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself
#10I wish I could understand why product managers come up with these ideas and developers implement them. Every release, Microsoft improves Windows in one way (like WSL) and then adds two reasons why it should be uninstalled completely. I use OneDrive on certain computers in my business. In others, it's inappropriate. On all my business computers, Xbox, Candy Crush, MSN etc. are inappropriate. And Edge was great for a while until it became the preferred route to feed me clickbait and more annoying pop-up ads. Why chase your users away?